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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464144703321

Autore

Phillips Christopher N

Titolo

Epic in American Culture : Settlement to Reconstruction / / Christopher N. Phillips

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore, Md. : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , 2011

©2011

ISBN

1-4214-0527-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (375 p.)

Disciplina

811/.03209

Soggetti

National characteristics, American, in literature

Literature and history - United States - History - 19th century

Literature and history - United States - History - 18th century

Epic literature, American - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Columbian strains: the diffusion of epic form in early America -- Constitutional epic: old rules for an unprecedented genre -- Epic on canvas: the history of a critical term -- Transcendental epic; or, Importing the new traditions -- Tracking epic through the leather-stocking tales -- Lydia Sigourney and the Indian epic's work of mourning -- Longfellow's pantheon -- Melville's epic career.